Economic history

This critical exposition of Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments, first published in 1971, gives an appreciation of Smith's conception of scientific method as applied to the study of social phenomena.

An inclusive economic history of America describing two centuries of American racial conflicts since the Constitution was written.

This is a multidisciplinary analysis of the relationship between the motor car and popular culture in the 20th century, which brings together original essays by academics in the UK, North America and Australia.

Is the 'natural resource curse' destiny?

This book analyzes the impact of the digital economy on customer satisfaction, shopping experience, resistance to change, script theory, and loyalty.

This is an introduction to the Industrial Revolution which offers an integrated account of the economic and social aspects of change during the period.

In the spring of 1992, Deng Xiaoping made a historical tour of south China, popularly known as the Nanxun ("e;southern tour"e;).

Neoclassical economics as-sumes that people are highly rational and can reason their way through even the most complex economic problems.

This book explores the concept of 'the Levant' as a component of the regional and international system during the age of imperialism.

The narrative of China's history in this book is 'theme-led' rather than conventionally chronicle-based.

The book offers a concise account of modern Japanese economic history and the essence of postwar macroeconomic issues and policy.

While ethics has been an integral part of economics since the days of Adam Smith (if not Aristotle), many modern economists dismiss ethical concerns in favor of increasing formal mathematical and computational methods.

Zanasi argues that notions of market and consumption linked to economic liberalism emerged earlier in China than in Europe.

Technical changes in the first half of the nineteenth century led to unprecedented economic growth and capital formation throughout Western Europe; and yet Ireland hardly participated in this process at all.

This book seeks to understand why almost all commentators on the Irish economy were unprepared for the scale of the recent economic crisis.

At what stage of their careers do great artists produce their most important work?

This volume of the Collected Writings of Modern Western Scholars on Japan brings together the work of Ben-Ami Shillony on modern history, crisis and culture, Japan and the Jews.

India in the 1950s and 1960s, with its diversity of economic structures and different levels of regional development, offers a unique opportunity to explore a wide range of agrarian evolution within a multiform society.

From chatelaines to whale blubber, ice making machines to stained glass, this six-volume collection will be of interest to the scholar, student or general reader alike - anyone who has an urge to learn more about Victorian things.

This book explores the formation and evolution of Scandinavian central banks.

This book is the first systematic scholarly study on the business history of Turkey from the nineteenth century until the present.

One Way Ticket (1983) examines the 'hidden armies' of migrant women workers who have since the 1950s fulfilled a demand for low-skilled, low paid and insecure work in both the formal and informal economies of Western Europe.

This book and its companion volume offer a better understanding of the lessons that Indian policymakers can learn from China's economic experience over the last 40 years.

A revised and updated edition of the leading overview of economic regimes and economic performance in twentieth-century Europe.

Published in the year 1975, Study of Economic History is a valuable contribution to the field of Military and Strategic Studies.

The Economic Development of the USSR (1982) examines the economic advances the Soviet Union made as the first major economy to adopt full-scale socialist planning.

This book brings together its contributors to study the figure of Seignelay Colbert de Castlehill, born in Inverness on 13th August 1735 into a Presbyterian family and who died in London, an anti-Concordant bishop and leader of the 'Little Church' on 15th July 1811.

Merchant networks generated trade and the exchange of goods between the cities of early modern Europe.

First published in 1927, Economics and Human Behaviour is a defence of orthodox economics against the attacks of social psychology.

Most economic theory is based on the assumption that economies grow in a linear fashion.

From the workings of financial markets to our response to the ecological crisis, economic theory shapes the world.

The Global Lives of Things considers the ways in which 'things', ranging from commodities to works of art and precious materials, participated in the shaping of global connections in the period 1400-1800.

This book reconsiders the nature and formation of Asia's economic order during the 1930s and 1950s in light of the new historiographical developments in Britain and Japan.

Global City Typologies explores the historical, cultural and socio-economic transactional forces in the development of existing cities through to newly planned and emerging cities.

The Indian economy has undergone dramatic changes over recent decades encompassing episodes of rapid growth and stagnation.

A definitive reframing of the economic, institutional, and intellectual history of the managerial eraThe twentieth century was the managerial century in the United States.

The Routledge Handbook of Heterodox Economics presents a comprehensive overview of the latest work on economic theory and policy from a 'pluralistic' heterodox perspective.

The Englishwoman's Review, which published from 1866 to 1910, participated in and recorded a great change in the range of possibilities open to women.

Winner of the 1990 Best Book Award from the New England Council on Latin American StudiesThis study of Bolivia uses Cochabamba as a laboratory to examine the long-term transformation of native Andean society into a vibrant Quechua-Spanish-mestizo region of haciendas and smallholdings, towns and villages, peasant markets and migratory networks caught in the web of Spanish imperial politics and economics.

The nineteenth century was a time of rapid change in forms of organization of economic activity.

FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2022 THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2021 'A complex story, which Tooze tells with clarity and verve.

This work, first published in 1977, is a reissue of a trailblazing work; the first textbook of economic history to deal comprehensively with the economic development of the whole continent in this period and to do so from a continental rather than a British perspective.

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This volume focuses on the life of Joseph Rowntree of York, a renowned Quaker businessman from 1836 to 1925.

This book is the culmination of and a collection of distinguished scholar Lawrence Officer's principal research over 50 years of scholarly activity.

Drawing on an array of archival evidence from court records to the poems of Chaucer, this work explores how medieval thinkers understood economic activity, how their ideas were transmitted and the extent to which they were accepted.

The alliance made between Cromwell and John IV in 1654, cemented by the Articles of Marriage between Charles II and Catherine of Braganza in 1661 lasted for 156 years.

This work traces the development of residential natural gas markets in the United States from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present.